Greece today has the most "privatized" health care system among EU countries. Given the country's universal coverage by a public system this may be called "the Greek paradox". The Objective of this paper is to analyze private health payments by provider and type of service in order to bring to...

Cost consolidation in the highly fragmented and inefficient Greek health care system was necessary. However, policies introduced were partly formed in a context of insufficient information. Expenditure data from a consumption point of view were lacking and the depth of the political and...